Psycholingualgeography is definitely the most pretentious title I ever gave a poem. I tried to change it on numerous occasions but the poem wouldn’t shift so it had to stay. It means ‘the language of the land’. An obsession over the years has been trying to reflect or share the myriad ways in which the land speaks to us, and I use the shape of the words on the page to mirror internal landscapes, but I can never explain it outright. This poem is as close as I’ve come. It’s a sprawling bilingual poem in three parts and was first published in a Dark Mountain anthology. It’s also in the Hanes pamphlet which you can download for free from the Herstory section at SophieMcKeand.com. #poetlife
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